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From: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com>
Cc: Dani Oderbolz <oderbolz@ecologic.de>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [SQL] "SELECT IN" Still Broken in 7.4b
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 15:01:46 -0700
Message-ID: <3F45414A.6030301@joeconway.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <25062.1061498540@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Tom Lane wrote:
> I'm toying with the notion of ripping out that logic and instead
> building an in-memory hashtable of already-returned TIDs.  This could
> theoretically run out of memory if the multiple indexscan returns enough
> tuples, but I think in practice that wouldn't happen because the planner
> wouldn't choose an indexscan when very large numbers of tuples are being
> selected.

I thought with your recent changes, you could use dynahash, which 
already spills to disk instead of consuming all memory?

Joe




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